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The calendar may say winter. But with fewer than 50 days until spring, it’s not too soon to start thinking about your garden. 

Here are three ways to get ready. 

If you’re just getting started with green home upgrades, there’s no better time to incorporate energy-saving measures than during a season when terms like “Bomb Cyclone” have been used to describe a weather event. 

Five of the simplest upgrades require minimal effort and will yield immediate benefits throughout 2018 and beyond. 

Rather than being crippled by adversity and disruption, community members can think ahead and create a framework to prepare for and respond to a crisis and ensure that their city returns to being healthy, safe, and strong physically, socially, and economically. 

But cultivating resilience isn’t just disaster planning. It also entails protecting the environment, creating economic stability, and ensuring the well-being of a city’s population. 

If you’ve vowed to ramp up your skills, develop new habits, or find more clients this year, we have some ideas – a baker’s dozen -- to get you started. 

Many contemplate how to incorporate their new knowledge into their businesses when they first get NAR’s Green Designation.